Home » Coin » In 2016 BlockStream had a round of funding led by AXA and others, the stated goal was to “further enhance their sidechain technology”. This is why they must strangle the blocksize as also revealed in an interview with BlockStream CEO Adam Back and Laura Shinn, Forbes writer in 2017. : btc

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Blockstream plans to sell side chains to enterprises, charging a fixed monthly fee, taking transaction fees and even selling hardware — a fact that has caused the big blockers to protest that Blockstream and the engineers it employs who are also Bitcoin core developers want to keep the block size small so Blockstream can profit. Back says this isn’t true because, beyond a certain point, side chains won’t really solve scaling.) Back says the community shouldn’t remove Bitcoin’s unique features in order to scale the network. Drawing out the other side’s position to an extreme, he says, “If we’re going to get centralized into a big data center somewhere, as in the PayPal case, it’s basically guaranteed the company running it will get national security layers and black lists and all the things banks do and regulations will apply to them.”

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